• Meow
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    49 months ago

    If I could find a internal server fan smaller then 20x20mm. I’d stick one next to my 1U CPU Cooler. But for some reason I can’t find one. Needs to be smaller then 20x20 because it would sit on top of the motherboard in a closed 1U server rack frame.

    • @2nsfw2furious@lemmynsfw.com
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      19 months ago

      There are centrifugal fans that are quite flat but they intake airflow from a different axis they exhaust it from. Could still work

    • @scutiger@lemmy.world
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      19 months ago

      You can use a larger fan and a shroud to redirect the air flow, similar to how laptops are cooled.

      • Meow
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        19 months ago

        I’d like to keep the cooling internal, I just have it sitting on a shelve next too other desktops k3s nodes.

        • @scutiger@lemmy.world
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          19 months ago

          I just meant you can have an internal fan that’s larger than your heatsink, and a shroud to direct the airflow to it. It requires less vertical space, but more horizontal space.

          • Meow
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            19 months ago

            Oh yeah that makes sense, the board does come with a shroud, my fans just don’t have the power to push air through it well.

        • ferret
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          19 months ago

          Do you mean the card with the SODIMM next to the CPU? that is a raid card, and it looks like it is responsible for the front drive bays.

          • Meow
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            29 months ago

            Oh yeah it def had the SAS Backplane wires, I’d switched to using the SATA on board since it doesn’t have the same HD capacity limits. I think it was a max of 2tb with the backplane and I’m using a couple of 10tbs. Maybe their is some weird bios that requires it to be on board?